Phantom Philosophy

Examining the relationship between ideas and facts.

Communicating constructive criticism.

"We see as we believe, believing we see as we see."

[Phantom Philosophy @philosophyeye]

@ProfFeynman "The truth", even in science, is an unstable compound of facts, concepts and beliefs.

[Phantom Philosophy @philosophyeye]

Knowledge is a creative curiosity in nature - full of contradictions - able to knowingly alter events & determine outcomes, unlike the ‘nature known to science’. And it’s not a matter of ‘information being the cause’, or that causes can be known as explanations of their powers.

[Jay Alto @theJayAlto]

"i don't know" is ironically the smartest thing you can say

[Phantom Philosophy @philosophyeye]

“Information” portrayed as “the thingness to explain all thingnesses” begs the question of what can come to be “in reality” - in a reality that is evidently more than can be reduced to (found in or equated to) its “building blocks” - hence the continuing drive for an explanation.

[Kekius Maximus @Kekius_Sage]

Nobel physicist Anton Zeilinger suggests reality and information are the exact same thing.

Information is the ultimate building block of existence, meaning matter is just a byproduct of data.

[Phantom Philosophy @philosophyeye]

PROBABILITY: A dynamic (constantly changing) assessment of “the reality” created by an interaction between “events” and their observation - of selections made “in situ” by those observers - in the belief that the outcome will reveal a wholly independent fact.
#NewDevilsDictionary

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

The Monty Hall Problem:

A probability puzzle based on a game show scenario. Given a choice among three doors (with a prize behind one), switching after one non-prize door is revealed increases your chances of winning from 1/3 to 2/3.

[Phantom Philosophy @philosophyeye]

Pronouncements of truth don’t necessarily capture the whole truth about the problem of explanation - arising in a known psychological reality that can’t be found in, or remotely identified with, the universe’s “natural causes”.

[Amazing Physics @amazing_physics]

“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us ‘Universe,’ a part limited in time and space."

- Albert Einstein

[Phantom Philosophy @philosophyeye]

“The present” marks the beginning of what can be—coming to build on that which formerly appeared to be sufficient in itself.

[Phantom Philosophy @philosophyeye]

@nosnow365 All we know of ‘the future’ is that it represents a ‘potential’ (power-to-be) operating through ‘the present’/‘isness of events’ - enabling them to become more than ‘their everything’ - in themselves. Meanwhile, ‘the past’ remains a pale reflection of what ‘might have been’.

[Phantom Philosophy @philosophyeye]

No wonder science wants to deal with possibilities as “matters of fact” (by inferring what needs to be proved) - as if the poss of a psychological outlook in nature is proof of nature being itself (because there it is) - as if causes can tell us all we need to know about effects.

[Phantom Philosophy @philosophyeye]

The origin of possibility is a complete mystery which we can’t explain by presuming it must already exist somewhere, in some form, in order to be possible. And we cling onto the illusion of expln by surmising that ‘emergent causes’ are the obvious repository of effects yet to be.

[Phantom Philosophy @philosophyeye]

@Nature If only “trust”, operating as a fact in nature, could be explained as an evident “fact of nature”.

[Phantom Philosophy @philosophyeye]

The origin of possibility is a complete mystery which we can’t explain by presuming it must already exist somewhere, in some form, in order to be possible. And we cling onto the illusion of expln by surmising that ‘emergent causes’ are the obvious repository of effects yet to be.

[Phantom Philosophy @philosophyeye]

Events in/of existence (with or w/o an origin), of which we formulate our theories of cause & effect, yield but a cursory glimpse at the possibilities, yet explanation shifts imperceptibly from views of what is, to what must be - with laws - as if to outlaw any idea of a mystery.

[Phantom Philosophy @philosophyeye]

Truth is our idea of what “must be” - intensified by the depth of our ignorance.

[Phantom Philosophy @philosophyeye]

@nosnow365 All we know of ‘the future’ is that it represents a ‘potential’ (power-to-be) operating through ‘the present’/‘isness of events’ - enabling them to become more than ‘their everything’ - in themselves. Meanwhile, ‘the past’ remains a pale reflection of what ‘might have been’.

[Phantom Philosophy @philosophyeye]

@ShiningScience In reality:
The reality of thought is thinking. The reality of brain is physiology.
The difference “demands” an explanation.
The reality of explan has the brain explaining thought (C & E).
So “thought” is the brain being itself.
Alternatively, brains aren’t everything in reality.

[Phantom Philosophy @philosophyeye]

“The reality (of)” brandishes the trappings of a modern myth, resting on another - that “it” can be found in/ identified by its underlying precursors - and explained there(of).

[Phantom Philosophy @philosophyeye]

@leecronin @RichardALJones The difference between cause & effect makes a real difference that cannot be put down to the reality of the cause alone. As such, causal explanations harbour a deeper non-explanation which cannot be avoided by treating change as “evidence of a sameness that must have always been”

[Phantom Philosophy @philosophyeye]

@leecronin @RichardALJones The difference between cause & effect makes a real difference that cannot be put down to the reality of the cause alone. As such, causal explanations harbour a deeper non-explanation which cannot be avoided by treating change as “evidence of a sameness that must have always been”

[Phantom Philosophy @philosophyeye]

“Metaphysics” gets stigmatised as an irrational alternative to physics, but it may also be seen as a more contemporary resistance to the “irresistible logic” of a “solitary physical nature” being the inevitable solution to the unsolved problem of itself (plus “everything else?”).

[Noema Magazine @NoemaMag]

“A fierce debate is raging around the slippery notion of consciousness. It retraces a trotted pattern of cultural resistance: We humans are often scared by anything that may disturb our image of ourselves.”

— @carlorovelli

https://t.co/5YcnsqXF70

[Phantom Philosophy @philosophyeye]

“Knowledge” is evidence of our faith in “the known” based on the presumption that “the facts” are telling us what to know.

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

— Dr. Carl Sagan

[Phantom Philosophy @philosophyeye]

“Physics first” (implying “first on the scene”) doesn’t prove physics can explain everything, even itself - with a “theory of everything” (implying “physics is everything”) - without the “ethereal metaphysics” of an overview (a putative explanation called “physics”).

[Phantom Philosophy @philosophyeye]

Imagine metaphysics being as real as physics in a nature exceeding the boundaries of known physics (i.e. not like ‘nature’ as physics imagines it) - revealing powers to think, imagine and plan ahead with intent - making a real difference (i.e. ‘spooky action with a difference’).

[Phantom Philosophy @philosophyeye]

Imagine metaphysics being as real as physics in a nature exceeding the boundaries of known physics (i.e. not like ‘nature’ as physics imagines it) - revealing powers to think, imagine and plan ahead with intent - making a real difference (i.e. ‘spooky action with a difference’).

[Phantom Philosophy @philosophyeye]

Life is a transformative event for the ‘nature of the universe’ as it was. Then there is sentient life.

[Phantom Philosophy @philosophyeye]

Science quietly allows the public to believe that ‘the facts’, as selected by its best theories, supply firm evidence of those theories having been selected by the facts.

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

"Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion."

- Richard Dawkins

[Phantom Philosophy @philosophyeye]

@PhysInHistory Opinions stem from beliefs that we try to clarify from the ad hoc manoeuvrings of their deployment.

[Phantom Philosophy @philosophyeye]

@leecronin The universe has a clever scheme for accommodating different things in the same place - it allocates them different times.